“Is it not part of the national defense to make sure that
your children are safe?” Boxer asked during a Capitol Hill press conference in
the misguided belief that this content-free trope somehow constituted
compelling wisdom.

She blithely stated that her proposal wouldn’t be a
violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (which was supposed to prevent the
domestic use of the military for the purpose of law enforcement) because it
would allow governors to re-purpose troops who are already being used for drug
interdiction operations. That is to say, the militarization of schools wouldn’t
constitute a new Posse Comitatus violation, but rather expand on an existing
one.

Boxer’s proposal to militarize the schools could have been
taken directly from "The Origins of the
American Military Coup of 2012,” a terrifyingly prescient essay
published twenty years ago in Parameters, the journal of the U.S. Army
War College by military historian Charles J. Dunlap. This glimpse of a
dystopian future takes the form of a long letter written by an officer awaiting
execution as a traitor to the junta that has seized control over the United
States in the wake of military disasters abroad and socio-economic turmoil at
home.

"It wasn't any single cause that led us to this
point," writes the condemned patriot to a friend. "It was instead a
combination of several different developments, the beginnings of which were
evident in 1992.” Rather than de-mobilizing at the end of the Cold War, the
ruling establishment expanded the military’s mission overseas and made it an
even more pervasive presence at home.

Military personnel became "an adjunct to all police forces in the
country," the officer recalls; social and economic problems were redefined
as "national security" issues and brought under the military's area
of responsibility. This is how uniformed military personnel became ubiquitous:
People became accustomed to the sight of "uniformed military personnel patrolling
their neighborhood.... Even the youngest citizens were co-opted.... [We have]
an entire generation of young people who have grown up comfortable with the
sight of military personnel patrolling their streets and teaching in their
classrooms."

There is a sense in which Boxer’s proposal is redundant,
since armed “warriors” are already deployed in countless schools nation-wide:
They are called “resource officers,” but they are taught to perceive themselves
as front-line troops on a combat footing.

"You've got to be a one-man fighting force,”
self-styled counter-terrorism “expert” John Giduck exhorted police officers at
the 2007 National Conference of School Resource Officers in Orlando, Florida. “You've
got to have enough guns, and ammunition and body armor to stay alive.... You
should be walking around in schools every day in complete tactical equipment,
with semi-automatic weapons.... You can no longer afford to think of
yourselves as peace officers.... You must think of yourself [sic] as soldiers
in a war because we're going to ask you to act like soldiers."
(Emphasis added.)

“Resource Officers” are not present for the protection of
children; their mission is to intimidate
them, and – with increasing frequency – make criminals out of them. A
detailed story published by The Guardian
of London points out that in 2010, police deployed in public schools issued
roughly 300,000 “class C misdemeanor” citations to school children, most of
them for trivial disruptive behavior, such as “inappropriate” dress and
excessive use of perfume. Those infractions can result in fines, community
service, or even time behind bars – and an arrest record that can ruin the
student’s future educational and employment prospects. This is a splendid
illustration of the “school-to-prison pipeline” in operation.

Although
horrific mass shootings like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School are
vanishingly rare, “lock-down” drills in which SWAT teams conduct training
exercises involving hostage or terrorism scenarios are increasingly
commonplace. Many of those “hostage rescue" drills are better described as
hostage-taking exercises, since they are used as pretexts for warrantless searches
of lockers and student property.

This exercise introduced a new element: Among the four law enforcement agencies
involved in the search was a group of prison guards employed by the Corrections
Corporation of America, the nation’s largest for-profit prison contractor.

Notes
Caroline Isaacs of the Tucson office of the American Friends Service Committee:
“To invite for-profit prison guards to conduct law enforcement actions in a
high school is perhaps the most direct expression of the `schools-to-prison
pipeline’ I’ve ever seen.” Clearly, the similarities between government-run
schools and prisons are not limited to architecture. Posting National Guard troops around government indoctrination centers, as Boxer proposes, would destroy any residual pretense that there is a material distinction between "schools" and "prisons" in what is becoming an undisguised garrison state.

Like most contemporary liberals, Boxer is a passionate militarist
who swaddles her enthusiasm for lethal force in rhetoric about compassion and
equality. She can call for armed troops to patrol “gun-free” school zones
without perceiving any contradiction, because she simply assumes that the rest
of us exist only to serve the interests of the political class and its enforcement
arm. It is their privilege to compel, and our duty to submit to whatever they
choose to inflict upon us. This is what Boxer and her comrades have in mind
when they invoke “national security.”

Financed and directed by the banksters, the War of Liberal Aggression (Amerikan Front)has begun.

The horrible CT massacre was the spark they had been waiting for. The blitzkrieg has been launched and Reichmarshals Boxer and Feinstein will be merciless in their assault against every liberty and every right.

We can no longer say something wicked this way comes. It is here. In force. And it will be even worse than expected.

Completely irrelevant to the topic at hand (ok, well, MOSTLY irrelevant), but has anyone noticed that Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein are two of the ugliest women around? Are people from California completely blind as well as stupid?

My apologies to those who will recognize this as an Ad Hominem attack.

I hadn't read 'The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012'- thanks for pointing this out. For me, this blog is preaching to the choir... in a few years, these kids will be our judges, politicians, cops, prosecutors, and teachers. Since their rights have been ignored, they'll continue this trend by ignoring ours.

How right you are, Will, when you state: “Resource Officers” are not present for the protection of children; their mission is to intimidate them, and – with increasing frequency – make criminals out of them."

Here in my little Oregon town with 1 high school and a few 'school resource officers' each week there's a rundown in the paper of what kids were arrested for on and around campus. These school cops have never saved a student from a marauding gunman or mob, but they are adept at arresting kids for marijuana, tobacco and even weapons locked away in their cars.

Back when I was in high school we had our own version of a 'school resource officer'. Brother Flanagan (aka: Black Flag) was quite adept at popping up unannounced in the parking lots or alleys behind the school's buildings. Rather than criminalize us, he'd issue a slip of paper entitled: JUG (Justice Under God), a copy of which was turned into the principal's office. JUG granted us the right to spend a few hours after school for a week cleaning restrooms and washing windows - anything to help the school janitors.

But, free labor does little to help the State like a young man's travels thru the Justice System.

As for babbling Boxer, I find it (somewhat) ironic that her call differs little from the NRA's call for armed cops to patrol every school in the country. At this point in time I see little difference between armed thugs, whether employed by a city, county or state or those employed by the FEDS. Both ideas are horrific for a number of reasons.

Finally, now is a good time to watch this video again : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-jTCNZSmY and wish they were all as 'professional enough' as this one.

I suspect if you took that gavel and tapped her on the head, you would hear the sound of wood. These people are completely stupid. Yeah, and as Will said, notice the contradiction; guns in schools are bad, unless a government agent is wielding them. When you start doing things like "lock-downs", searches, hostage rescue training, etc. these are no longer schools, but prisons. Abolish compulsory public education. Also, the NRA is a joke anymore.

Mr. Grigg,You are spot on! NRA is a joke. Ban anti-depressants and anti-psychotic drugs. There were no school shootings before kids were on anti-psychotic drugs. Kids used to have guns in their car to go hunting after school, now they can't even have one on their T-shirt! Get the police out of schools, we don't need another TSA groping our children! Ban violent movies...man they're getting awful! Dump Boxer & Feinstein!Protect the Constitution!JR

The local AM station has an active shooter psa but it is geared towards the workplace and not school. This commercial if that is what you wold call it has been on since late November. It is sponsored by the local sheriff who narrates the psa. My tinfoil hat is rusty and I can't pickup comrade Laika's frequency except on full moon nights but it does make you wonder how all of media is in lockstep from the behemoth conglomerates to the local yokel AM station. Always the theme of the collective and more control over our lives. Do it for the greater good, what about the kids, we ought to pass a law.

During the last century, somewhere between 200 - 300 million human beings were killed by govt/states with weapons in the hands of these govts/states.

During the same time frame,not 1% of those numbers were murdered by individuals using weapons.

The INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION from the above is:

GOVERNMENTS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED THE USE OF WEAPONS.

Boxer and all the other ignoramuses can go on and on, ad nauseum and ad infinitum about 'evil guns' and all the other lies they spew in order to justify attempting to disarm us all, but the informed will always know the facts. From this, it is then easy to learn the true domestic enemies freedom loving people face. The sad fact is that trolls like Boxer et al gain their traction only because of the absolute unfettered ignorance of the majority of those we call 'citizens', ever ready to give up all their rights for a few crumbs from the table of their masters.